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A look at industry job title updates, leadership changes, and awards and at aviation VIPs who have taken their final flight.

The state Agency of Transportation asked senators for permission to install green warning lights on its equipment, such as snowplows and other maintenance trucks. Lawmakers responded lukewarmly.

State officials said they could not answer questions about how airport operations would differ under a private owner and declined to share details on Beta’s proposed plans when asked by local pilots.

Beta Technologies, the Burlington-based electric plane startup, is now interested in buying the Caledonia County Airport in Lyndonville, according to state transportation officials.

Work is well underway to incorporate future eVTOL aircraft into military missions of all types.

After a land use amendment allowing for the proposed parking lot was approved by the city council last year, Beta’s master plan and site plan for the site south of the airport seems likely to wrap up with the city’s development review board this month.

The National Air Transportation Association’s advanced air mobility committee, established last year, will give Volatus a seat at the table.

Skyports, a leader in the young vertiport industry, is working with a British architecture firm to build an air taxi network.

First Lady Jill Biden and U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says Vermont could be a model for America in technical education.

Addressing employees, students, state officials and others gathered at Beta Technologies in Burlington on Wednesday, the first lady said technology’s impact on many industries makes alternative education models “more important than ever.”